Bedways (2011) on Netflix

In a squalid apartment in Berlin, an unconventional director strives to capture unadulterated feelings, raw passion and undiluted sex for an experimental film project about love.

Film director Nina wants to shoot a movie about love and sex. She invites her actor-friends Hans and Marie for screen tests in a huge, run-down apartment in Berlin for a couple of days. There are problems with the first recordings and it turns out that the project is not so easy to implement. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. For Nina love is not necessarily a matter of emotion - she is rather looking for an authentic depiction of sex. The intimate collaboration turns into experiments with film, love and bodies and finally has an impact on the private relationships between the three of them. It seems that the boundaries between acting and reality begin to disappear. Ultimately, Nina Bader declared the project a failure.

—lament

Encased in a drab and squalid apartment stripped of furniture somewhere in Berlin, two unknown actors Hans and Marie, under the guidance of Nina, an unconventional and aspiring director, strive to capture unadulterated feelings, raw passion and undiluted sex for an experimental film about love. For this reason, the project lacks a script and a title, and while the actors deliberately stay in the dark, during the following week, Nina for the sake of pure cinematic realism, will push everyone's boundaries in a low-budget exploration of intimate desires and suppressed emotions, as the fine line between drama and reality eventually begins to fray. In front of the camera's harsh truth, authenticity is hard to counterfeit, nevertheless, will Nina's film project ultimately reach completion?

—Nick Riganas